21st Century Dialogues

Local historian HARDY BROWN II takes six SBVC students on a journey of historical empathy via artifacts from Pre-Civil War slavery. Students handle original shackles and read passages from southern law books and newspapers that treated people like used cars. They engage in a dialogue that compares past and present, and breaks down how human bondage was one of America’s original sins.

Three female community leaders and three female SBCCD students discuss women’s history, social media, gender equality and the equal rights amendment through the lens of their different generations, identities, and life experiences.